
Klepacki joined Westwood in 1991, having applied as a game tester for DragonStrike a year earlier.

Learning to program in BASIC on a Tandy 1000 got him interested in computer games. Born to a family of musicians of Polish and Italian descent, Klepacki had drawing and music as his hobbies, with the latter eventually prevailing, receiving him his first drumset at the age of 8 and his first professional performance at 11.
